Shemaine Bakir

Shemaine Bakir serves as a key procurement professional within the U.S. Agency for International Development/Ghana (USAID/Ghana), supporting the agency’s mission to advance sustainable development through expert technical assistance and locally led solutions. In this capacity, she manages the acquisition of professional, scientific, and technical services critical to strengthening institutional capacity, market systems, and public service delivery across Ghana’s agriculture, economic growth, governance, and crisis resilience sectors. Her procurement activities center on performance-based contracts that emphasize adaptive program design, systems strengthening, and outcome-driven technical support, ensuring alignment with USAID’s strategic priorities of fostering self-reliance and local ownership. Bakir collaborates with a diverse array of international and local service providers, including technical consulting firms, research institutions, and development implementers with deep regional expertise. While no specific contractor relationships are currently identifiable in the dataset, her acquisition patterns suggest consistent engagement with firms possessing proven experience in institutional capacity building, economic systems analysis, and adaptive management frameworks. Her working relationships reflect a preference for long-term, performance-based partnerships that prioritize technical excellence and contextual relevance over transactional engagements. Bakir’s procurement portfolio reflects a strong orientation toward open competition, with 100% of acquisitions classified as “No Set-Aside,” indicating a focus on merit-based selection rather than socioeconomic set-asides. This approach prioritizes technical capability and programmatic impact over socioeconomic categories, aligning with USAID/Ghana’s emphasis on results-driven contracting and global best practices in development assistance. Her primary procurement focus lies within NAICS 541990—All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services—encompassing a wide range of technical assistance, policy advisory, monitoring and evaluation, and systems strengthening services. She routinely procures expertise in market-based interventions, governance diagnostics, resilience programming, and data-driven decision support, demonstrating deep domain knowledge in development economics and institutional reform.